28 Nov 2016

During the week, news hit the social media about a lady, Olaide Abisola, who vowed that if Don Jazzy doesn’t marry her she would not get married to any other man.

She went as far as placing a spiritual curse on Don Jazzy, saying he won’t be able to marry any other woman if he didn’t marry her.

Speaking with Potpourri on why she made such a grave utterance, she made a disturbing revelation:

“My dear, it’s actually a joke, but look at the way it went viral! Yes, I’m not kidding it was a joke. I actually wanted the fame and I got it, I just want to be known because I’m going into acting soon," she said.

The lady has been celebrating her so called fame on her social media page, throwing stinkers at whoever cares to criticize her.

She wrote: “Thanks for the fame, just what I needed. To all my haters out there enjoy your noon with this, more comments please. They are just fooling themselves, all the insults no remove one hair for my body, jobless people.”

A suspect is dead and at least 9 injured about an hour after an active shooter situation was reported at Ohio State University. Just before 10am [local time], the university issued a warning telling students at the school's Columbus campus to shelter in place.

The first reports of gunshots came from Watts Hall, which is home to the school's Materials Science and Engineering program.

Since then though, the focus of law enforcement on the campus has been on a nearby parking garage, where the shooter or shooters were believed to be hiding. More photos...

Police stormed the garage just before 11am and minutes later they confirmed that one suspect was dead. Two men, one black and one white, were also brought out of the building in handcuffs.

An Islamic cleric named Nuh Caparino, who was shot dead yesterday November 27, as he led other Muslims in Fajr prayer in his place in the Philippines, was pictured smiling as he was being buried.

According to Facebook user Abdur-Raheem Mc-Carthy who shared the photos from the burial, Nuh Caparino accepted Islam in Saudi Arabia and later became one of the most active clerics. Nobody knows why he was killed.

The police in Ondo state have reportedly arrested the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, for hitting a member of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of the school, Abiodun Ademola Atunbi, with his car at the main campus of the school at Oba’nla in Akure this morning.

Members of staff were said to have gathered at a particular place to pray when the incident happened. Police Officers from the Okuta Elerinla Police Station arrested Prof. Daramola shortly after the accident occurred.

Aggrieved members of the staff gathered and staged a protest in the school. Some of them set up bonfire within the school campus.

The Vice Chancellor and members of staff of the school have been at loggerheads for a while, with some of them calling for his removal from office.

An Indonesian woman screamed in agony Monday as she was caned in Aceh, the latest in a growing number of women to be publicly flogged for breaking the province's strict Islamic laws.

Aceh is the only province in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes sharia law. People can face floggings for a range of offences -- from gambling, to drinking alcohol, to gay sex.

In the latest caning, five people -- two women and three men -- were flogged in front of a cheering crowd at a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh.

The 34-year-old woman who yelled in pain had been found guilty of spending time in close proximity with a man who was not her husband in contravention of Aceh's Islamic regulations.

She was lashed seven times with a rattan cane by a man wearing long robes and a hood, with just slits for the eyes.

"It hurts so bad," the woman said, raising her arms into the air, as she was beaten.

The 32-year-old man with whom she was caught was also flogged seven times.

Two university students, both 19, received 100 lashes of the cane after they confessed to sex outside marriage. They stared at the ground as they were flogged, showing little emotion.

A man found guilty of sex outside marriage was flogged 22 times although his partner, who is two-months pregnant, is still waiting to learn her fate after facing trial at an Islamic court.

Motorists in the Russian city of Irkutsk were stunned to see a man standing by the roadside naked in the biting cold and doing his best to cover his modesty with his hands.

Mobile footage of the hapless man was taken by police officers who pulled over to help him. The man can be heard saying: "Help me, please!"My girlfriend took all of my clothes and I can't feel my legs."

The policeman opens the door and says: "Get in and you will get warm."He told officers:

"I was having fun with a girl who lives in a nearby hostel. We were having sex, then something happened to her. Suddenly she became scared, then someone started knocking on the door and that was it."

Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia of the Federal High Court and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Godwin Obla are currently being arraigned before Jutice Akeem Oshodi of a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja. The duo are being arraigned on a 30-count charge of conspiracy to pervert justice by allegedly giving and receiving a bribe of N5 million.

According to Leadership, EFCC sources alleged that about $793,800 passed through Justice Ajumogobia's domiciliary accounts between 2012 and 2015 and that the judge allegedly used the money to buy a house in London.

The two accounts, Access Bank (0002649223) and Diamond Bank (0032091183) have since been frozen by the EFCC. Five of the charges are centered on an alleged N5m bribe given to the judge by the senior advocate while the remaining 25 charges are on the huge amounts that passed through the accounts of Ofili-Ajumogobia and her alleged inability to explain her source of wealth.

Remember the South African Prophet, Lethebo Rabalago, who used Doom Pesticide in an attempt to 'heal' his church members at the Mount Zion General Assembly in Limpopo, South Africa. Rabalago claimed in an interview that it was to heal people with cancer, HIV or any other illness. Well, the supposed Prophet used it on himself during his Sunday service to prove critics wrong. Lol. See more photos below...

An accountant with a lubricant producing firm in Ikoyi, Lagos State, Femi Akinola, has been arrested by the police for allegedly stealing the company’s $50,000.

Punch Metro learnt that the company – Eterna Plc – had sent 30-year-old Akinola to withdraw the sum from the United Bank for Africa in the Marina area on Thursday, November 17.

On getting back to the office, he reportedly told his boss that he was kidnapped on the way from the bank, saying his abductors dispossessed him of the money and his phones. A Punch correspondent gathered that Akinola was subsequently arrested by the police.Police investigation reportedly revealed that he faked his own kidnap.

He was said to have led the operatives to the fence of a primary school in the Bariga area, where $30,000 concealed inside a concrete block was recovered.

While parading the suspect on Friday at the Lagos State Command headquarters in Ikeja, the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said Akinola stripped himself and threw his phones into a river to perfect the ploy.

He said, “The suspect worked with a multinational company in the state. He was sent to withdraw $50,000. After withdrawing the money, he faked his own kidnap and claimed that the kidnappers collected the money.

“The police have been able to recover $30,000. He confessed to have given out $15,000. We are making efforts to recover the remaining sum.”

However, Akinola, who hails from Ondo State, denied feigning his abduction, saying one Kingsley, who purportedly lives in United Kingdom, colluded with a fraudster to swindle him out of the money.

The father of two children said Kingsley’s accomplice hypnotised him, adding that the man had left before it dawned on him that he had been defrauded.

He said, “I am also into music. I used to chat with one Kingsley in the UK, who wanted to help me with my music career. I chatted with him that day and I told him that I just withdrew $50,000. He told me he needed $15,000. He sent somebody to meet me around Marina to collect the money. It was after the person collected the money and my phones and left that I came to my senses.

“I was confused and didn’t know what to do. At that point, I decided to hide the remaining $35,000 at the back of a primary school in Bariga, and left for Epe to commit suicide. On getting there, I changed my mind and reported to the police that I was robbed.”

The suspect stated that he was known for honesty, which had earned him awards from the company every year.

“I earn over N120,000 per month. I didn’t have intention of using the money to promote my music career. That was not the first time I would withdraw money for the company as an accounting officer. I had withdrawn more than that in the past. I have been working with the company for five years,” he added.

Meanwhile, an electrician, Abdullahi Balogun, was also paraded on Friday for impersonating a soldier to supervise the demolition of a house in Bariga on Thursday.

He said he got the uniform from a military officer, identified simply as Mako, who promised to give him a token after the demolition.

The indigene of Kano said, “Mako directed me to the place. I was monitoring the demolition when policemen came and I was arrested. I have three children and a wife. I accepted to carry out the assignment to get some money to feed my family.”

This sad news emanating from the University of Nigeria Nsukka has it that a final year Agric Economics student committed suicide. According to his friend Nwachukwu Daniel Ikechukwu,who posted the photo on Facebook today, the young man allegedly killed himself over debt. He also lost some money to betting. Some of his friends don't believe he killed himself over money though. See Graphic photo below and post...

President-elect Donald Trump took to his twitter account to complain more about the presidential election recount in Wisconsin, saying that he won both the Electoral College and the popular vote and the only reason why Hillary Clinton is ahead is because of Americans who 'illegally' voted for her He tweeted:

'In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.'

Troops attached to the 121 Task Force Battalion killed 20 Boko Haram terrorist on Saturday, November 26th. The troops were escorting local government officials including the Caretaker committee chairman of Gwoza Local Government Council, Hon. Saeed Salisu Sambo and travellers from Pulka to Maiduguri when the terrorists ambushed the convoy.

They fired shots at the troops and officials, detonated improvised explosive devices (IEDs). However, the troops successfully repelled the attack. Six soldiers sustained various degrees of injuries.

The council boss took to his Facebook page to recount the incident.

What he wrote below:

"Alhamdulillah, we thank Almighty The Exalted One for sparing our lives from the ambush of the BH. We scaled this attack with the help of our gallant Nigerian Army Soldiers of 121 Task Force Battalion Pulka, who were escorting me and my entourage from Pulka to Maiduguri. The incident happen at about 5km into Bama town 10am after living Nguro-Soye.

The insurgent detonated an IED and followed by sporadic gun shoot which was repelled by the gallant soldiers which i can't deny to comment this gallantry work of the duo Patrol Commanders of the 121BN i.e (Capt. S. Suleiman and Lt. N. Ayuba). In the event of the ambush, six (6) soldiers sustain degrees of injuries, and more than twenty of heinous actors (BH) were killed by the rocket launcher as i vividly saw them them running away, as the military engage them in response. The officers injured were Sgt Onu Oga, Cpl Jonah Inji, Lcpl Dauda Isa, Lcpl Lawal Yahaya, Cpl Oku Sunday, Pte Austin Matthew and re presently receiving medical attention at Brig. Maimalari Barracks Hospital. We wish them immediate recovery, and to see them back to their working in the soonest possible time. Ameen"

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested four suspects for allegedly swindling unsuspecting members of the public of various sums of money.The four suspects were picked up separately by the operatives in three incidents of fraud in Maryland, Ojodu Berger and Ajegunle between Tuesday and Thursday last week.The suspects, Kenneth Umukoro, 36; Uba Utokcha, 41; Joseph Onuoha, 40 and Ikechukwu Okeke, 25, individually owned up to the crime when interrogated at RRS headquarters.

According to one of the victims, Ibeh Chiwenu, she was going to Ojodu Berger from Ojota when Kenneth Umukoro, driving a metallic colour Toyota Camry, 1997 model with the registration number SMK 886 DK, stopped at the bus stop to pick her.

"As he drove along, he picked another passenger on Kudirat Abiola Way. We were still on Kudirat Abiola Way when the new passenger started a conversation on something like French language with the driver… The driver now pleaded that he wanted to take the new passenger to Customs’ Office on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, where his goods were seized. It was here that their story changed and I became the subject of their manipulation in connivance with a custom agent and a pastor," she added.

She further explained:

"Under the pretext that the four of us assist the man whose goods were trapped with the custom over export duties, they brainwashed me into releasing my ATM card, led me to withdraw the last N9,000 from my account…. After this, the pastor prayed for me and told me to go home and get more money that my family kept at home."

"All these happened last week. Today, Thursday, my husband and I were standing at the Maryland Bus Stop. I saw the same Toyota Camry with same number plate and a new driver, but beside him was the former driver that lured me into fraud, pretending to be a passenger. I alerted RRS officers stationed in Maryland and they arrested them."

The two other suspects, Joseph Onuoha and Ikechukwu Okeke were arrested separately but in a similar circumstance on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Onuoha, confessed to interrogators that he belonged to a fraud syndicate led by one man simply identified as Toronto, adding that their leader, who is now at large, trained over 40 of them to go out daily in search of would-be victims.

"When we hit jackpot, we share it into five parts. Toronto takes two parts. Two of us in a team share two and we would share the remaining part to others…. Presently, our office in Ajegunle has been busted by the police. Toronto as I was told has relocated to somewhere in Surulere. Whenever we have issues with the police, he comes around to secure our bail," Onuoha said.

Responding to the development, the Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Dolapo Badmos, said that the police won’t relent on their duties of making the state crime free but warned members of the public to be wary of suspicious dealings.

The four suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti.

An infant ejected during a serious car crash miraculously survived after ending up in a storm drain, 25-feet away. Not only was she found alive but she also had just a scratch on her forehead.

According to reports, a truck sideswiped a family vehicle along an Interstate "a highway serving two or more states" in Arkansas. The vehicle flipped over and the 8-month old girl was ejected in the process. The survivors tried looked for her but couldn't find her.

Rescuers arrived and after a rigorous search, located her due to a sound. She was found inside a storm drain, more than two dozen feet from the roadway...

Authorities think she rolled down a hill to the drain.

It took three firefighters to get her out and she was taken to a hospital along with four other people in the car. All have been released except for the driver who is still recovering.

Police confirmed that the child was not properly restrained in the car seat at the time of the accident and that the car seat was also not properly installed. No citation was however issued.

The driver of the truck that allegedly sideswiped the family vehicle was charged for an improper and unsafe lane change...

The corpse of a 3 yr old boy whose penis cut off was on Saturday November 26th abandoned under a bridge on the Abuja-Lokoja road in Gwagwalada. Residents of the area believe s‎suspected ritualists had kidnapped the little boy elsewhere, cut off his penis and dumped his remains under the bridge.

The corpse has been deposited at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital morgue at Gwagwalada. Divisional Police Crime Officer in Gwagwalada, Philips K. Dogo, who confirmed the incident, said ‎the police is investigating the matter and would soon apprehend the culprits.